I fell in to a burning ring of fireI went down,down,downAnd the flames went higherAnd it burns, burns, burnsThe ring of fireThe ring of fire

Although many believe “Ring of Fire” to be about falling in love, Johnny Cash’s first wife, Vivian Liberto, offers a different perspective. In her book I Walked The Line she contends that June (Cash’s second wife) didn’t co-write the song as credited. Vivian writes:

To this day, it confounds me to hear the elaborate details June told of writing that song for Johnny. She didn’t write that song any more than I did. The truth is, Johnny wrote that song, while pilled up and drunk, about a certain private female body part. All those years of her claiming she wrote it herself, and she probably never knew what the song was really about.